THE Olympic-medallist, who is renowned for saving her best performances for the big occasions, is hoping to achieve Diamond League victory at Hampden's first ever athletic event in July.

THE fine margins between success and failure in elite sport are often cruelly small.

But even by those high standards, Christine Ohuruogu’s world championship was terrifyingly tight.

Four
thousandths of a second, a blink of an eye, an almost impossible margin
to sandwich between two human bodies straining every sinew to be the first across a painted white line. Almost.

The crucial thing for Ohuruogu is that it was just enough to see her win the tightest race of the World
Championships in Moscow last summer, edging 400metres gold from Amantle Montsho in a photo finish.

Six
months on, the 29-year-old looks back on it as the most dramatic and one of the most satisfying of a long line of triumphs that includes Olympic gold and silver and two World titles.

But despite all her success – she remains the only female British athlete to have won three global titles in the same event – Ohuruogu has her gaze firmly fixed on the next challenge of her illustrious career.

Achieving Diamond League success as she gears up for the Sainsbury’s Glasgow Grand Prix at Hampden this summer.

The Londoner has always been renowned
for saving her best performances for the big occasions and she believes
that the expected crowd of 30,000 will spur her on to another good performance in Glasgow.

Ohuruogu said: “A big crowd acts as an even bigger motivator and nothing would be better than to have a full stadium and a home support behind me at Hampden in July.”

Having raced at the Kelvin Hall eight years ago Ohuruogu is familiar with Glasgow’s enthusiastic athletics fans and is relishing the chance to compete in front of them in July.

She said: “It is a real privilege to be competing at the first ever athletics event at Hampden.

“I
competed at the International Match in 2006 and I know how amazing the crowd were then but to have potentially 30,000 there in July, it’s going
to be a spectacle for both athletes and spectators.”

The Sainsbury’s Glasgow Grand Prix will be the ninth leg of the prestigious IAAF Diamond League and Ohuruogu is keen to be part of the 14-meeting series, where athletes get the chance to face the world’s best on a regular basis.

She said: “Every year the competition in the Diamond League gets stronger and that helps to prepare athletes like myself for major championships.”

Winning her third global title and setting a new British record of 49.41secs in the process, Ohuruogu became one of the most successful female British athletes of all time last summer.

Her first World Championships gold came seven years ago in Osaka, Japan, before clinching Olympic gold in Beijing a year later.

At London 2012, competing just a stone’s throw from her East London home, she picked up another Olympic medal, this time silver.

But it’s her Moscow success last summer that Ohuruogu remembers most fondly.

She said: “To have won a second world title and to break the British record in the process is one of the proudest moments of my sporting life.

“I have found that I always produce my best on the big stage and the successes only make my desire to win even greater.”